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...Guide to New York City's restaurants and hotels hit bookstores Oct. 7 (updated Michelin guides to San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas also go on sale this month). What's new: Four restaurants in New York have earned the coveted Michelin three-star rating - Masa, Jean Georges, Le Bernadin and Per Se. If they're a bit too rich for your pocketbook, don't fret: a quarter of the restaurant listings in the new guide fall in the affordable range. At 58 restaurants, you can get two courses and a glass of wine or dessert...
It’s no surprise that the Swedish Academy awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for literature to a Frenchman, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. After all, Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the Academy, noted just recently that Europe is “the center of the literary world” and claimed that American writers are far too insular, brainwashed by their own cannibalizing pop culture to produce any literature worthy of the Nobel Prize. Not since Toni Morrison nabbed the honor in 1993, it seems, has an author from our shores been...
...individual authors,” his declaration of Europe’s literary hegemony reveals a subtextual but unmistakable nationalism—or at least, regionalism—in the consideration of today’s arts and letters. French president Nicolas Sarkozy did not mind; crowing yesterday over Le Clézio’s success, he called the win “an honor for France, the French language, and the French-speaking world...
...tying an author or a body of literature to a particular nation has become problematic in an age of migration. The intranational, intracontinental, and intercontinental movements of people have increased the number of “global citizens” and diluted many claims to a pure, national identity. Le Clézio is hardly an unambiguous “Frenchman”—although born in Nice and of French descent, he moved to Nigeria when he was eight, punctuated his life with long stays in Mexico and South America, married a Moroccan woman, and now splits...
...Le Clézio is just one example of a new breed of writers that cannot be tied to one nation—and who make M. Engdahl’s running tally seem especially ludicrous. More and more, the literary world will be confronted with authors writing in multiple languages and combining genres tied to different regions. In order to accommodate emerging literatures and appreciate the global citizen-author, intellectual leaders must indicate a willingness to shrug off literary nationalism and revise their mantra: how about “liberté, égalité, hybridit?...